ACOSTA: “Mr. President, since you attacked CNN, can I ask you a question?”

TRUMP: “[FOX News correspondent] John Roberts go ahead.”

ACOSTA: “Can I ask you a question?”

TRUMP: “No.”

TRUMP: “CNN is fake news. I don’t take questions from CNN. CNN is fake news. I don’t take questions from CNN.”

Acosta brought the press conference to a halt insisting that the U.S. president take his question. Trump tried to move things along by calling on Roberts again.

TRUMP: “John Roberts from FOX, let’s go to a real network.”

Trump continued after the press conference in a tweet:

So funny! I just checked out Fake News CNN, for the first time in a long time (they are dying in the ratings), to see if they covered my takedown yesterday of Jim Acosta (actually a nice guy). They didn’t! But they did say I already lost in my meeting with Putin. Fake News……

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